What are these fish??

Squeakfish

Squeakfish

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Jan 9, 2008
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My LFS has a number of fish that, for the life of me, I cannot identify.

This pic isn't the greatest, because this sucker(fish) won't sit still. It's a suckerfish, about two inches long, has bumblebee stripes, and it doesn't LOOK like a pleco.
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These next guys are catfish of some sort. They have spines on the sides, they're shaped mostly like arrows, and I think they're Raphael catfish. They're highly antisocial and normally hang out in a huge clump behind the filter with the ghost knife.
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No one in the store knows if these are CAEs, SAEs, or Flying Foxes. They don't have that reddish tinge to their fins, but they are rather aggressive. They like to suck on the sides of the gouramis.
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This one is a pleco. It looks like a relatively normal pleco (it's about an inch or two long) but I have never seen this pattern before.
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Dang if these guys don't stay still for one freakin' second! I think they're tetras but they're strips of bright orange-red with a darkish stripe. They're the size of neons.
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And for your enjoyment: A CUTTLEFISH!
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I kinda want to know what these guys are, 'cuz I kinda work there. Except the cuttlefish, he's just cool.
 
the small one like a neon is a cherry barb
the one that likes to suck on gouramis looks like a chineese algae eater and he might soon kill them!!
 
1) A mountain loach of some kind.
2) Raphael Cat (I hope I spelled that right).--Talking cat family.
3) Flying fox.
4) Some kind of pleco (but not the common one).
5) Cherry Barb
6) Cuttle fish. :)
 
I'd love to know if that pleco is a dwarf, or if anyone recognizes it. It's so neat, and I really want it for my tank, but I can't handle a big pleco.
 
Squeakfish said:
I'd love to know if that pleco is a dwarf, or if anyone recognizes it. It's so neat, and I really want it for my tank, but I can't handle a big pleco.
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Best guess-- --Pseudolithoxus tigris
 
I finally figured out what pleco it is. It is Hypancistrus sp. (L260), the Queen Arabesque Pleco.
 
Third one is a Siamese algae eater (looks nothing like a chinese algae eater or sucking loach, don't know how people confuse these) and I'm very surprised it's being aggressive; they generally aren't.

Chinese algae eater (as you can see, totally different markings)

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Fifth one isn't a tetra at all but a cherry barb.
 
I'm surprised too, but today I transferred several gouramis to sick bay because they all had suckermark lesions next to their gills. The SAEs were responsible.
 
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